Juliet Stuart Poyntz (last name was originally spelled Points) was born 25 Nov 1886 in Omaha, NE to John James Points (1845-1926) & Alice Eulalie Stewart (1854-1926). She went to Barnard College in Jersey City and was a member of the Daughter's of the American Revolution. She earned her degree in 1907 and was class treasurer and class president, secretary of the Bernard Union, and last but not least president of the Undergraduate Association and chair of the student council when she was a senior.
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(Juliet is the top right photo, this was taken from Ancestry Yearbooks, Bernard College 1905)
She was a member of many clubs & organizations while attending Bernard including theater. She received her A.M. Degree from Columbia University. A great achievement for her time.
She became a suffragist, feminist, trade union and a socialist, just a few occupations of hers, including communist, political activist and spy.
She was married once to Fredrich Franz Ludwig Glaser, they married 8 Oct 1913 in Manhattan, NY.
On 3 Jun 1937 she was at the American Women's Association Clubhouse at 353 West 57th St in Manhattan, NY and disappeared and has not been heard from since.
Police started an investigation and found no clues to where she could of been, all her belongings, including all her clothes and luggage were in her room...Below is the link to that building as it looks today.
What the clubhouse looked like then:
https://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/AmericanWomansAssoc.html
It is now the Henry Hudson Hotel
https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune-juliet-stuart-poyntz/135007309/
here are some newspaper articles on her disappearance
https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-juliet-stuart-poyntz/135007030/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-juliet-stuart-poyntz/135006358/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-juliet-stuart-p/135006279/
In the beginning of 1938 an Italian-America anarchist Carlo Tresca accused the Soviets for kidnapping Juliet so she couldn't defect. There were others that said she was kidnapped and assassinated because she became a traitor.
As I was doing her research I made her a tree on Ancestry.com and I found many passenger lists for her some of her travels.
1934 went to England on the SS Layfette
1928 went to Boulogne France on the SS Veendam
1912 went to Liverpool on the SS Haverford
Above are a couple of the passenger list records I found on Ancetry.com and mentioned above.
I also found this index for Naturalization
New York, U.S., New York County Supreme Court Naturalization Petition Index, 1907-1924
Name Juliet Stuert Glaser
Address 358 W. 22 St.
Date 12 Mar 1924
Volume # 628
Page # 198
Below is a YouTube video that mentions her disappearance but it's the only one I could find, which I find strange, so I guess that will be put on my to do list. I also found a video on the early years of Bernard College that is really informative.
I am guessing she was kidnapped and assassinated as many communist party members claimed through the years. But until Russian documents are produced to prove this claim it will remain a mystery.
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